In washington. Congressman darrell issa chairs this House Oversight hearing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. The Oversight Committee exists to secure two fundamental principles. First americans have a right to know the money washington takes from them as well spent and second americans deserve an efficient and effective government that works for them. Our duty on the oversight and government reform committees protect those rights. Our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to taxpayers because taxpayers have a right to know what they get from their government. Its our job to work tirelessly in partnership with citizen watchdogs to deliver the facts of the American People and bring genuine reform to the federal bureaucracy. Todays hearing particularly touches on taxpayers and what taxpayers should expect from the government. It continues the committees investigation
Here on the side of caution, if you were wrong and came before us and you disclosed 6103 would you be protected by something called speech and debate . No. What could happen to you if you release 6103 information. If you erred on the side of liberal . Anywhere from removal of position to criminal prosecution, sir. Thank you. I recognize the Ranking Member. Thank you. I want to begin by picking up where chairman left off. Im asking about troubling testimony we heard yesterday about personally intervening to block the committee from receiving documents. I listened to what you just said. I want to take that no to consideration as i asked. The hearing yesterday and the acting head testified that the irs was about to send us documents last week. With information related to category of progressive or left leaning groups that may have received they determined it wasser. Admissible to share the information with our committee. Because it related to cat dwoirs that rather than specifically ident
Recovering. What is the temperament . There are concerns that there may be any climate changes. And the impact on jobs . Everybody claims to be an environmentalist and wants a Healthy Planet and does that one the planet to heat up. When he asked them what they feel about the effects of higher electricity bills net the gasoline pump, they do not like that. Until we get some of these theyrees online, going from a fossil fuel path to a renewable future. The renewable future will bring a whole new set of jobs. That is not going to happen overnight. Youre not replace that with a wind or a solar job instantaneously. When people cost talk about the cost, then theyre less supportive. Click were out of time. We are expecting this will for transfer to the house of representatives. Do not hold your breath. It is the same partisan divisions we saw in last congress. It is not changed anything. Thank you for your time. Inc. s a lot. Thanks a lot. [captioning performed by national captioning institut
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] some may argue that the lack of enduring u. S. Troop presence in iraq has contributed to the resurgence of violence, especially sunni terrorism related to al qaeda. But lets be honest, the dire security situation in an bar province is much more about iraqi politics than it is about the United States. In any case, the direct use of u. S. Military force in iraq is virtually unthinkable at this point. Weve withdrawn from iraq and we arent going back. Although we no longer have boots on the ground, however, the u. S. Maintains a huge stake in iraqs security and i think we should continue to provide assistance to the Iraqi Military in the fight against iciss. But we should recognize that the Current Situation in an bar cannot be resolved through military means alone. An all out assault by fallujah on the Iraqi Security forces will play in the hand of isis that they have been victimized by Prime Minister ma la kis government. The gover
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